Following a screening of Magnolia Pictures’ “Blackfish” — a doc on the deaths of SeaWorld trainers by a killer whale — photographer Peter Beard recalled his own close call with elephants while shooting images for a project. “I’m here in New York with titanium,” he told us at Circo, describing how he broke a hip and had a tusk go though his leg in a 1996 stampede. “I’ve been savaged . . . these elephants were out of control. We ran away, and the elephant went back and then it came again. It just never stopped.” Nevertheless, Beard doesn’t blame the beasts: “Elephants aren’t dangerous. [None of them] stepped on me when that whole herd of 15 came around. We just got a major calling card.”